Background
Assheton was eldest son of Sir Richard Assheton of Middleton (who died 1618) and a descendent of Ralph de Ashton of Middleton.
Assheton was eldest son of Sir Richard Assheton of Middleton (who died 1618) and a descendent of Ralph de Ashton of Middleton.
Sidney Sussex College.
He was a general in the Parliamentary army in the English Civil War. He was admitted at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge on 22 May 1614 and was also admitted at Gray"s Inn on 24 May 1614. He was awarded Master of Arts at Cambridge in 1615 on the visit of the King, and was incorporated at Oxford University in 1616.
In November 1640, Assheton was elected Member of Parliament for Lancashire in the Long Parliament.
In the Civil War he became a colonel-general in the parliamentary army and was commander in chief of the parliamentary forces in Lancashire. He was excluded from parliament in 1648.
Assheton died aged 54. His monumental brass in the Church of Street Leonard, Middleton is the only brass in the United Kingdom of a Civil War officer in full armour.
Assheton"s eldest son Ralph was created a baronet after the restoration.